Angela Carter - Wise Children (1991)

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Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

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Not many people can boast a photo of their grandmother posing for kiddiporn.

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He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.

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It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.

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Our fingernails match our toenails, match our lipstick, match our rouge.... The habit of applying warpaint outlasts the battle.

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There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.

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Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been.

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Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

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Irish was a man of parts even if some of them didn't work too well.

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A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.

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A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy.

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